Wednesday

Sep 14, 2016 at 12:01 AMSep 14, 2016 at 6:05 PM

The work week in three words: Wet and wild.

“A wet and stormy pattern will take shape this week across South Florida,” the National Weather Service in Miami says. Torrential rain and street flooding is possible on Tuesday and Wednesday, forecasters said.

There’s a big precipitation deficit to make up. Officially, Palm Beach International Airport is 5.13 inches in the hole since March 1.

There have been 11 days without a trace of rain, while temperatures have been edging back up to above normal after an unusually cool second week of the month.

The latest seven-day rainfall forecast from NOAA calls for more than 3 inches of rain through next weekend in South Florida. A new found of drier air is in the long-range forecast for the start of next week.

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CHILLING, BUT NOT GRILLING: While Palm Beach broiled under a steamy high of 87 on Sunday — it was 89 at Palm Beach International Airport — folks in the Upper Midwest were watching snow falling on their spring tulips.

Grand Rapids, Mich. reported snow for the first time on May 15 since 1973, according to Mark Torregrossa, a forecaster for WNEM-TV in Saginaw.

“Cold northwesterly winds are actually making lake effect snow showers,” Torregrossa said in a blog post Sunday morning. “Only in Michigan could we talk about lake effect snow in May.”

Well, not exactly. Snow was also reported in Buffalo for the first time on May 15 since 1959, ditto for Rochester, N.Y.

Chicago tied a 121-year-old low temperature record on Sunday with 35 degrees. It was 31 in Rockford, Ill. which tied a record low set in 1926.

Washington Dulles International Airport reported a low of 37, which tied a record set in 1984.

A record low was also tied in Newark, N.J. with 40 degrees, last set in 1937.

The National Weather Service posted freeze warnings this morning for parts of Ohio, Pennsylvania, West Virginia and as far east as western Maryland. *

TROPICS WATCH: The area of low pressure in the North Eastern Pacific — which spun up on the first day of the basin’s hurricane season — had a 20 percent chance of becoming a tropical cyclone Monday morning, up from 10 percent a day earlier.

Additional development was possible as the system moves west to west-northwest at 5-10 mph, forecasters at the National Hurricane Center said. But upper-level winds become more unfavorable later in the week.